[Python-Dev] Module size

[Tim Lesher]

On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 09:41, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net> wrote:
> That said, I don't think the size is very important. For any non-trivial
> Python application, the size of unicodedata will be negligible compared
> to the size of Python objects.

That depends very much on the platform and the application.  For our
embedded use of Python, static data size (like the text segment of a
shared object) is far dearer than the heap space used by Python
objects, which is why we've had to excise both the UCD and the CJK
codecs in our builds.
-- 
Tim Lesher <tlesher at gmail.com>